James Hvisdas

Vice President of Construction

Mr. Hvisdas is responsible for overseeing the construction of Sweetwater’s sugar-production facilities. Prior to joining Sweetwater, Hvisdas served as PAETEC’s Executive Vice President of Operations, where he was responsible for company-wide operations, providing executive oversight of engineering, construction, maintenance, and operation of over 380 telecom switch sites, POP sites, and data centers, in addition to having responsibly for Field Forces, Real Estate/Facilities, Security, as well as Power and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining US LEC, he spent 10 years at Rochester Telephone/Frontier where he held responsibilities for the Carrier and Central Office Installation groups. He also worked for ETS, Contel ASC, and American Satellite.

Board, Community, and Charitable Pursuits

Mr. Hvisdas is an enthusiastic member of the Cancer Society of America where he actively participates on the Breast Cancer team “Lady and the Trap”.

ABOUT SWEETWATER ENERGY

Sweetwater Energy uses a unique technology for producing low-cost sugars and clean lignin from multiple non-food plant materials to help meet the modern world's increasing bioenergy and biochemical demand.

Sweetwater has a comprehensive intellectual property portfolio of issued and pending patents. Sweetwater's highly efficient technology and process allows the company to produce very high quality sugars and unique, clean, non-sulphonated lignin fiber. Extensive testing with multiple third-party companies has proven that both our sugars and lignin shine as platform feedstocks for many final products.